Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun circumvention

1 sense of circumvention

Sense 1
circumvention -- (the act of evading by going around)
       => evasion, escape, dodging -- (nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive")